The melancholy of visiting one's hometown. Naosuke Yamaichi shows a town in Japan after the seasons have changed: the fields have been harvested, the leaves have blown off the trees and the colours have gone. Reminded of the inverse images captured in negatives, he photographed the town where he was born without nostalgia and without trying to sugarcoat its wintery gloom. In the afterword he writes that he has always thought of this inorganic yet organic world in black and white, that the scenery is constantly changing and yet the longer he stays away the less it seems changed on his return, and that no matter how far he walks the horizon never takes on colour and spring never comes.